Exemplification

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Exemplification is a ‘quasi-semantical’ relation, and it (and universals¹) are “in the world” only in that broad sense in which the ‘world’ includes linguistic norms and roles viewed (thus in translating) from the standpoint of a fellow participant.

— Naming and Saying

• This plays off Carnap’s notion of ‘quasi-syntactical’.
• There’s the narrow view of ‘the world’, that’s the world that science is the measure of all things. And the broader view of the world that has things like rules.

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1. e.g. redness, lionhood ↩